Listen: Britney Spears - Circus

Listen! Now!

Blogs What I Like: 2UIBestow

Check out this Irish music blog, named after one of Mundy's greatest tunes. They've got some sweet downloads, which is always wonderful. I'll say no more.

Check it out:
http://2uibestow.blogspot.com/

Stream: The Raveonettes - Wishing you a Rave Christmas

Yet another 2008 EP release from The Raveonettes, this time it's a Christmas special Wishing you a Rave Christmas.

Tracklist:
1. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
2. Come On Santa
3. Christmas Ghosts
4. Christmas In Cleveland

Stream it here:
http://www.spinner.com/new-releases#/7

Oh and you can buy it here:
http://www.amazon.com/Wishing-You-A-Rave-Christmas/dp/B001KSK53S/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1227621979&sr=1-7

Watch: First Aid Kit - Tiger Mountain Peasant Song

What better band of the moment to cover than Fleet Foxes? Well Fleet Foxes covering Vampire Weekend would be cool, but until that happens the excellent First Aid Kit taking on 'Tiger Mountain Peasant Song' by Fleet Foxes will have to do.

Watch:


Also worth looking at when December finally rolls around is First Aid Kit's 'Blue Christmas':
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hwGSLssqXmA&fmt=6

Check out their own songs at their MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/thisisfirstaidkit

Live: Fairport Convention at Whelan's

Fairport Convention have almost been around as long as my parents. The band themselves are older than my folks, but they've been playing music since my own Papa and Mama were in their teens. Don't think they owned any folk on vinyl though. Planxty was what my Dad loved.

Anyhow, Fairport Convention will play Dublin's Whelan's on May 14th, 2009.

Tickets cost €20 and are on sale now.

Live: Deerhunter at Whelan's

Thanks to Lauren for yet another great announcement!

Deerhunter will play Whelan's on Wexford Street next March, the 7th. When i read it first, I thought it was the 17th, so Paddy's Night is still free for some great band to blow off my ears.

Tickets are €14 and will be on sale soon.

Watch 'Strange Lights':

Album News: Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Self-Titled

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit are set to release the best album of the decade (maybe the best album ever) on February 17th, 2009 (a bit late for my girlfriend to get it for me for Valentine's Day, but I'm a patient man).

The album was co-produced by Isbell and The 400 Unit with Matt Pence. "I want it to be known that it's a band record," says Isbell. "I want it to be known that it's something we all did together. Even though I wrote the songs, it was a very inclusive project."

TRACKLIST
1. Seven-Mile Island
2. Sunstroke
3. Good
4. Cigarettes and Wine
5. However Long
6. Coda
7. The Blue
8. No Choice in the Matter
9. Soldiers Get Strange
10. Streetlights
11. The Last Song I Will Write

You can stream (not download, sniff) 'Seven Mile Island' on Isbell's Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/jasonisbellmusic

Watch Jason's best song 'Danko/Manuel' which he recorded while with Drive-By Truckers:


Oh and you can listen to clips of the rest here:
http://www.lightningrodrecords.com/musicplayerisbell.html